Kenny Fukuhara

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@stoolpresidente I really think you’re going to have to take on the responsibility of pressuring the right people to change how soccer is handled in this country.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@MadridSports_ Anyone beat this?

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@matisalas93 @MadridSports_ Sorry, I beat you.

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@JordanRaanan um.

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@herculezg You are a true Negative Nancy.

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@BlakeyLocks I don’t think you understand. Poch could coach at a top club in Europe if he wanted. Plus nothing in this report says Poch has accepted the role, or even engaged in conversations. Nicolò is known for his click-bait style, cryptic tweets.

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@Ceruti The way Nicolò words his reports is click bait. It can be assumed the first sentence is true. Pochettino will probably leave after the WC. The second sentence can be true, but nothing says Pochettino has accepted the job or even entertained the idea. #acmilan

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@NicoSchira The way Nicolò words his reports is click bait. It can be assumed the first sentence is true. Pochettino will probably leave after the WC. The second sentence can be true, but nothing says Pochettino has accepted the job or even entertained the idea. #acmilan

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@atrupar But why are we not talking about that guys belly button in the background?

[Don’t Follow Shardi B If You Hate Money @ShardiB2]

If you read the @SignaTrading newsletter, you may have noticed this prediction go from like 29% recently to now 71%

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@atm_informa Salve, mia ragazza ha la tessera Under 26 ma quest’anno il limite è stato alzato a Under 27. Il sito non le permette di acquistare l’abbonamento Under 27 perché ha ancora la vecchia tessera. Come possiamo aggiornare la tessera? Grazie

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@stoolpresidente @sixers Day 8 of me convincing you to come to Milan and try Pizza Stella with me. New York style pizza, in Italy.

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@stoolpresidente Day 7 of me convincing you to come to Milan and try Pizza Stella with me. We can even talk horses. I’m from Kentucky.

[ilgiornaledelgolf @giornaledelgolf]

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[Will Compton @_willcompton]

The world is better when Ted Lasso is on TV

[ilgiornaledelgolf @giornaledelgolf]

Italy is waiting…

@PGATOUR @McIlroyRory @PGATOURComms https://t.co/O20QHjx0vk

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@marc_donato @AMAZlNGNATURE It wouldnt think that.

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@stoolpresidente Day 2 of me convincing you to come to Milan and try Pizza Stella with me. I’ll buy.

[Kenny Fukuhara @kfukie7]

@stoolpresidente Day 1 of me convincing you to come to Milan and try Pizza Stella with me. New York style pizza IN ITALY.